08/08/2000 (Agence Europe) - The British Secretary of State for Trade and Industry Stephen Byers intends to take five initiatives to break the present stand-off in the multilateral negotiations. If we start the preparatory work now, this will put us in a strong position after the US Presidential elections, he asserted, while considering it "vital that the EU indicates its willingness to look at liberalisation of the present regime of agricultural subsidies and tariffs". Mr Byers, for whom it...